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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: I read the Minister's speech on the day and I have reread it. He rang the developers, all excited, and they came in. They gave him the plans and he took them lock, stock and barrel. That is what they tell the researchers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: Quite a number of them told that to the researchers. The Minister accepted their proposals lock, stock and barrel. Some Fine Gael national politician who is very involved in housing told them that is the Fine Gael way, that Fine Gael believes in the market and that the market will solve the housing problem. It has not solved it and homelessness is far worse since the Taoiseach became...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should be producing the alternative evidence, not just telling us to consider the counterfactual. The Taoiseach should have that evidence. This was raised yesterday by Deputy Boyd Barrett. I accept that the Oireachtas acted in good faith but we were wrong and we should now go back on the decision and revert to the local authority model. Builders on the ground have told me...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Brexit Issues (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 137. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has discussed security in the Border region with Prime Minister Johnson recently. [39896/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: What about the new children's hospital?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: Will it involve a higher cost than that to which we were alerted last year?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: Could the Taoiseach check that for me?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: What is the status of the broadband contract? Has it been signed? When will it be signed? We were led to believe some months ago that it would be signed in September, but it is now October. Are there state aid issues, as was recently reported, in terms of other providers claiming they can operate within the area that was out for tender? What is the position with the broadband contract?...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: What is the point in having fast-track planning if nothing is fast-tracked?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: That has not happened.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: That was Fine Gael's decision.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: To whom was the intervention area challenged? Was it challenged to Europe?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: September becomes the end of the year.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday, it was announced that homelessness had reached a new record high and for the seventh straight month over 10,000 people were homeless. Even more shocking is the fact that 70 children became homeless last month. This has happened five years after the Government finally admitted that there is a housing crisis. It happened through the terms of four senior Cabinet members and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: I asked a question about the choices. Is it a question of the customs issue versus no deal? Is that where we were at?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has dodged my question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has avoided my question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: I know, but the Taoiseach could have given a response - even a broad one - and maybe that tells me something too.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 18. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee at which education policy is discussed; and when it last met. [39893/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Prime Minister Johnson; the issues that were discussed; and his plans to hold additional meetings and or engagements. [37403/19]